Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million — A Zappos like purchase for the e-commerce giant. — “What Amazon fears most: Diapers” declared the cover of BusinessWeek earlier this fall. Now it's clear that Amazon didn't fear diapers, it just wanted them for itself.

Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft's War Room — AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid.

The Facebook Skeletons Come Out — AMONG the many firsts in the 2010 elections, it is safe to assume that the following words had never before been uttered about a future member of Congress, “This is a candidate who is probably best known for getting drunk and having sex on television.”

The Cloud Fiasco of 2010: Drop.io — Drop.io gets bought and dropped by Facebook, and we're left with dead links. — This is nothing new to me. A company shows up with a good idea. It encourages people to use its services. The service is good, and the company says it has premium services …

Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs — Don't sweat the price. You'll pay in other ways — QCon San Francisco 2010 Oracle will deliver two Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on the OpenJDK project - one free and the other paid. — That's according to Tweets pouring thick and fast …

How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job — The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the gates of the Google Castle.

Glitch will make iPhone alarms late Monday — (CNN) — Not forgetting Sunday morning's time change is hard enough. — But Apple iPhone users in the United States must also remember to delete and then reset their phone's alarm clock — otherwise they may be an hour late for work on Monday morning.

Reports show HP was right to dump Hurd — commentary Mark Hurd is now a Silicon Valley symbol for self-destructive behavior. — On Friday, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine published detailed reports on what prompted the HP board to ask then-CEO Hurd to resign in August.

Like Everyone Else, Amazon Is Testing A Like Button — “Like” buttons have been around on the Internet for a while now. But most people didn't pay too much attention to them until Facebook came along with their one-like-button-to-rule-them- all. Now it seems as if every site on the Internet needs a Like button.

In Whitman and Fiorina, Candidacies That Did Not Compute — Jonathan Weber writes a column for The Bay Citizen. — The candidates from Silicon Valley lost big in the California elections Tuesday. Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, was trounced in the gubernatorial race despite spending …